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The door opens slowly. Joan Crawford, her eyes bulging as only Joan can bulge them, huddles in her wheelchair helplessly and stares in horror at-good grief, what is it? Its body looks like an outsize Christmas stocking stuffed with oranges, flashlights and toy trucks. Its hair suggests bleached Brillo...
And this "stocking the larder"-how many people can use 150 jars of pickled pigs' feet?
To document its story of ladies in distress, the magazine assigned a team of eight women reporters to a kind of undercover investigation. According to their findings, black lingerie is so scarce that salespeople are tired of saying "no" to repeated demands. Supposedly black slips and panties delivered to GUM...
Some of the most useful fringe benefits are invisible to the tax collector's eye. Informed churchgoers provide their ministers with sure-thing stock market tips; talented accountants in the congregation can help a pastor cut his tax liabilities; in rural districts the laity still follows the old frontier...
Harridge could consider himself ticked off-but lightly. In his book, Veeck has his rich, full say on some other baseball figures with whom he clashed. The man who could be so tender to his players that he once gave a sore-armed pitcher $40,000 as a parting gift...